Le*vi"a*than (l*v"*than), n. [Heb. livythn.]

1. An aquatic animal, described in the book of Job, ch. xli., and

mentioned in other passages of Scripture.

It is not certainly known what animal is intended, whether the

crocodile, the whale, or some sort of serpent.

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